Chef Point Bar & Restaurant - Colleyville
Restaurant · Colleyville ·
Upscale comfort food, famous bread pudding, unique gas station origins
Upscale comfort food, famous bread pudding, unique gas station origins
"The story behind Chef Point is the stuff of legend. It began as a little restaurant within a gas station, but the quality of the food didn’t fit its humble surroundings. The juxtaposition of elevated comfort food - like lobster mac and cheese, blackened pork chops, and a famous bread pudding - in a more casual setting helped Chef Point gain a local fanbase and national attention. Now years later, Chef Point has expanded into an expansive restaurant and patio, with locations in north Fort Worth and Colleyville." - emily smith
"The story behind Chef Point is the stuff of legend. It began as a little restaurant within a gas station, but the quality of the food didn’t fit its humble surroundings. The juxtaposition of elevated comfort food - like lobster mac and cheese, blackened pork chops, and a famous bread pudding - in a more casual setting helped Chef Point gain a local fanbase and national attention. Now years later, Chef Point has expanded into an expansive restaurant and patio, with locations in north Fort Worth and Colleyville." - Emily Smith
"Chef Point is something of a paradox. It’s a high-end restaurant that offers perfectly cooked steak and duck with plum sauce. But it’s also in a former gas station, just off the highway, in a suburb of Fort Worth. The unusual eatery’s origins date back to 2003, when owner Paula Merrell Nwaeze tried to open a more traditional restaurant with her husband. Since they didn’t have prior experience, the bank denied them a restaurant loan, and all the couple could afford was an empty space in a then-operational Conoco gas station. The sit-down restaurant they eventually opened inside became so popular that the couple removed the gas pumps. They were making most of their money from the restaurant, not the gas. Chef Point is part of a larger Texas tradition. In the massive state, which has more gas stations than any other, the gas station restaurant is its own genre, often offering better-than-average meals to a population on the move. But Chef Point has now become a destination for diners seeking lobster macaroni and cheese, seafood-stuffed poblano peppers, and rib-eye. It’s not fare you’d expect at a pit-stop, but it makes for a charming contrast with Chef Point’s once-humble surroundings. Know Before You Go Chef Point now has a second location (this one not in a gas station) at 5220 Hwy 121, in Colleyville, Texas." - Shy Pollock, pkrishna, Xenophore
"A fine-dining hidden gem that began inside a Watauga gas station and was featured on Guy Fieri’s Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives is expanding with a second, stand-alone location planned for later in the fall. The new site will occupy a larger footprint at the announced address, and will add live music and outdoor patio seating to broaden the original’s elevated comfort-food appeal." - Amy McCarthy
"A small gas-station café that gained wider recognition after being featured on a national TV show; the spot served as an unconventional but formative stop in the chef’s early career, exposing him to hands-on, no-frills cooking in a tight, high-turnover environment." - Alaena Hostetter
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